| A Notable Woman: The Romantic Journals of Jean Lucey Pratt Main Edition Contributor(s): Pratt, Jean Lucey (Author), Garfield, Simon (Editor), Garfield, Simon (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 1782115722 ISBN-13: 9781782115724 Publisher: Canongate Books OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Women - History | Women - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs |
| Dewey: 920.72 |
| Physical Information: 1.9" H x 5.1" W x 7.7" (1.10 lbs) 736 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 'Timeless, funny and utterly absorbing' HILARY MANTEL In April 1925 at the age of fifteen, Jean Lucey Pratt started a journal that she kept until just a few days before her death in 1986, producing over a million words in 45 exercise books. What emerges is a portrait of a truly unique, spirited woman and writer. Never before has an account so fully, so honestly and so vividly captured a single woman's journey through the twentieth century. |
Contributor Bio(s): Pratt, Jean Lucey: - Jean Lucey Pratt was born in 1909 in Wembley, Middlesex and lived much of her life in a small cottage on the edge of Burnham Beeches in Buckinghamshire. She was a trainee architect, she was a publicist, she gardened, she took in lodgers, she read copiously, she wrote criticism, and in later years she ran a bookshop. But above all, she kept track of her life in the most lyrical of ways, from the age of 15 until just a few days before her death in 1986.Garfield, Simon: - Simon Garfield is the author of seventeen acclaimed books of non-fiction including A Notable Woman (as editor), To the Letter, On the Map, Just My Type and Mauve. His study of AIDS in Britain, The End of Innocence, won the Somerset Maugham prize. www.simongarfield.com |